Remote Technical Scrum Master

Insight Global - Richardson, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Richardson, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Remote Technical Scrum Master will lead Agile-based software development processes within a new software development organization. This role involves facilitating Scrum ceremonies, tracking team progress, and ensuring adherence to Agile principles while promoting collaboration and accountability among team members.

Responsibilities

• Develop Agile-based SDLC/APLC for new software development organization.
• Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
• Maintain process documentation and ensure development teams practice core Agile principles.
• Update Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.
• Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices.
• Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency and radiate information.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Identify and remove impediments and prevent distractions that interfere with the team's ability to deliver the sprint goal.
• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution.
• Participate in the organization and planning of the development schedule based on methodology that creates a cohesive plan with identifiable critical path, task dependencies, and major milestones.
• Adapt project plans, schedules, and resource assignments as required throughout pilot projects.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years of software development experience.
• Experience utilizing SAFe/Lean/Agile (Scrum, XP, Kanban) methodology within enterprise-level application development projects.
• Experience performing Agile estimating, forecasting, and planning.
• Experience facilitating Scrum ceremonies including program increment (PI), product and iteration backlog grooming, iteration planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, iterations, system demos, and problem-solving sessions.
• Experience utilizing Agile practices including behavior driven development, test driven development, continuous integration/deployment, devops, and code and design reviews.